Name: Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought
ISBN: 978-0-230-11438-8

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Editors:

Shaunnagh Dorsett (Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law)⁰,
Ian Hunter (Australian Professorial Fellow)¹

Shaunnagh Dorsett
1. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
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Ian Hunter
1. Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History (CIH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xii

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Ian Hunter, Shaunnagh Dorsett
  
  Pages 1-8
European Law and Global Justice
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 9-9
  
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2. Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations
  
  Ian Hunter
  
  Pages 11-29
3. Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard
  
  Duncan Ivison
  
  Pages 31-48
Transpositions of Empire
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 49-49
  
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2. The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, c. 1490–1830
  
  Christopher Tomlins
  
  Pages 51-70
3. The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century
  
  John McLaren
  
  Pages 71-90
4. “Your sovereign and Our Father”: The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory
  
  Mark D. Walters
  
  Pages 91-108
5. The Justification of King Leopold II’s Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss
  
  Andrew Fitzmaurice
  
  Pages 109-126
Frontiers of Justice
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 127-127
  
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2. Samuel Marsden’s Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia
  
  Andrew sharp
  
  Pages 129-148
3. The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance, and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia
  
  Mark Finnane
  
  Pages 149-168
4. The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney
  
  Lisa Ford
  
  Pages 169-186
5. William Pember Reeves (1857–1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian, and “Rough Architect” of the New Zealand State
  
  P. G. McHugh
  
  Pages 187-205
The Crown in Colonial New Zealand
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 207-207
  
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2. Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period
  
  Shaunnagh Dorsett
  
  Pages 209-228
3. Imperial Policy, Colonial Government, and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s
  
  Damen Ward
  
  Pages 229-247
4. Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand
  
  Mark Hickford
  
  Pages 249-268
Back Matter

Pages 269-276

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About this book

A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.

Editors and Affiliations

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Shaunnagh Dorsett
Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia

Ian Hunter

About the editors

SHANNAUGH DORSETT is a Reader in Law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. IAN HUNTER is an Australian Professorial Fellow at the University of Queensland, and Deputy Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses, Australia.

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Book Title: Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought
Book Subtitle: Transpositions of Empire
Editors: Shaunnagh Dorsett, Ian Hunter
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114388
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10455-6Published: 26 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28913-4Published: 26 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11438-8Published: 08 November 2010
Series ISSN: 2945-6630
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 276
Topics: Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, History of Britain and Ireland, International Relations

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Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Introduction

European Law and Global Justice

Front Matter

Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations

Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard

Transpositions of Empire

Front Matter

The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, c. 1490–1830

The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century

“Your sovereign and Our Father”: The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory

The Justification of King Leopold II’s Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss

Frontiers of Justice

Front Matter

Samuel Marsden’s Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia

The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance, and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia

The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney

William Pember Reeves (1857–1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian, and “Rough Architect” of the New Zealand State

The Crown in Colonial New Zealand

Front Matter

Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period

Imperial Policy, Colonial Government, and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s

Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand

Back Matter

Keywords

About this book

Editors and Affiliations

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia

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Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

European Law and Global Justice

Front Matter

Transpositions of Empire

Front Matter

Frontiers of Justice

Front Matter

The Crown in Colonial New Zealand

Front Matter

Back Matter

Keywords

About this book

Editors and Affiliations

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia

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